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Perry lifestyles 11
Get out of that recipe rut, try some new exciting combinations
By LINDA ADAMS
Special to the HHJ
Some foods just naturally go to
gether. Peanut butter and jelly, cake
and ice cream, vegetable soup and
combread. Some combinations just
can't be beat.
But sometimes we can get into a
rut with our meals by always
preparing the same menus without
variations. Considering the things
we have to keep in mind when
planning meals, it is a lot easier to
fall back on the same menus. Hav
ing to consider nutrition, color,
texture, family likes and dislikes
can become nerve wracking when
you consider that we provide our
families with a minimum of 700
meals a year. And that doesn't in
clude breakfast.
I realized I was in a menu rut
when my husband looked in the re
frigerator and correctly gave me the
menus for the upcoming meals. I
can't help it, scalloped potatoes al
ways go with barbecue chicken.
And garlic bread always goes with
spaghetti. And green beans-well
they go with everything.
If getting out of a menu rut is
too hard, we can at least vary things
by trying different ways of prepar
ing the same old things.
For example, instead of your
usual garlic bread with spaghetti,
next time try this cheese toast.
Cheese toast
Slice french bread into thick
slices or use any other thick sliced
bread. You can use any kind of brad
you like, so why not try something
new? Breads like pumpemickle and
Peggy Bledsoe
County Home Economist
Encourage kids
to develop good
exercise habits
If you want your children to grow
up healthy, exercise should be a
part of their lifestyle. Some people
say that exercise is ihe most
important habit to form because
people who exercise become inter
ested in all the other parts of a
healthy lifestyle-like eating right,
managing stress and giving up
smoking.
To encourage your children to
exercise, Dr. Stephen Rice from the
Division of Sports Medicine at the
University of Washington has these
suggestions:
-Play should be fun. It's easier to
continue a good habit if you enjoy
it. You can also avoid injury if you
learn to stop when it hurts. Older
children may enjoy organized
sports, but you should still leave
time and provide a safe environment
for unorganized play.
-Have performance goals, not
outcome goals. In other words,
winning isn’t everything. Children
should be encouraged to develop
skills, measured by whether they
can do something better at the end
of the year. Their success should
not be measured by whether they
win a competition.
-Find activities that you can do as
a family, like walking or bicycling.
This makes you a role model for
your children and gives you more
time together.
Dr. Rice suggests different ages
for starting organized sports. Non
contact sports can be started at
about age 6-8 years. He maintains
that it's better to wail until age 8-
10 years to begin contact sports.
Collision sports can be started later
at about age 10-12 years. Also,
Rice does not recommend weight
lifting for pre-puberty children. Af
ter puberty, hormone levels in
crease. These hormones help make
it possible to increase muscle
strength through weight lifting.
Physical activity can be away to
make new friends and to gain
recognition. These positive
associations will help children
make exercise a regular part of their
healthy lifestyle.
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Spread one side of each slice with
softened butter or margarine.
Sprinkle generously with grated
Parmesan cheese. Heat a non-stick
frying pan or griddle on medium
heat. When hot place the bread,
butter side down, in the pan. Watch
closely and as soon as the bread be
gins to turn brown it's done. This
will burn quickly so keep a close
eye on it. You can toast the other
side of you like, but I like the con
trast in textures.
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barbecue sauces on the market and
everyone has their favorite. While it
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made, it's not hard at all to make
your own. Since you don't want to
upset everyone by changing all
your menus at once, try substitut
ing this sauce next time you use
barbecue sauce.
Barbecue Sauce
1/4 cup vinegar
1/2 cup water
2 T sugar
1 T prepared mustard
1/21. black pepper
1-1/2 t salt
1/4 t. cayenne pepper
1 thick lemon slice
1 sliced onion
1/4 cup butter or margarine
1/2 cup catsup
2 T. Worcestershire sauce
Mix vinegar, water, sugar, mus
tard, pepper, salt, cayenne, lemon,
onion, and butter in medium
saucepan. Simmer uncovered, 20
minutes. Add catsup and
Worcestershire sauce and bring to a
boil. Keeps in the refrigerator for
two to three weeks.
This sauce can be used for
spareribs or pork, but is especially
good with chicken. Place chicken in
casserole dish and pour sauce over.
Bake. Using your microwave will
make this an especially quick dish
to prepare. Try this with scalloped
potatoes. It's a great combination!
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Serving baked potaloe is one of
the easiest traps to fall into. They
are quick, easy and fairly low in
calories. The following recipe will
take only a little longer and add just
a few more calories. But it is defi
nitely worth a try and won't your
family be surprised!
Stuffed potatoes
Bake or microwave seven
medium or large potatoes (always
bake an extra-you never know about
potatoes until it's too late). Imme
diately cut slice from top of each
potato. Scoop out potato, being
careful not ot break the skin. Mash
well. Beal in enough light cream or
milk to make fluffy. Add butter,
salt and pepper to taste. Pile into
six shells (Seven if they all turned
out ok), rounding slightly. You can
serve at this point, or brush with
melted butter or margarine and dust
with paprika. Lighly brown under
the broiler. Serve at once.
For a variation on this, you can
add grated cheese, chives, parsley o r
minced onion to the scooped on
potato.
Since cookies go with every
thing, anytime, and anywhere, here
is a cookie recipe that will surprise
you. It's eascy to do and no on
will guess the main ingredient.
Please see RECIPE,; age 4D